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• Michael Paterson commented  ·  January 17, 2013 6:53 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Is this still a problem with VS 2012? Mine opens in about 2 seconds....

• Rudi Larno commented  ·  June 5, 2012 1:23 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Even with an SSD, it still feels slow when it is attempting to load all of the extra stuff everytime.

  The Visual Studio Team (as the Windows team has done) needs to go back to the basics and get these right first. There are numerous related ideas here around this topic that all basically come back to the same issue:

  VS is to bloated with lots of unrelated components. Most people do not need WPF, WinForms, Web, Windows Phone, Silverlight, Azure, Office, SharePoint components for every project.

  The VS team really needs to build in the right extensibility points to allow MS Marketing to push their message across (hey go build for SharePoint, Office, Azure, Metro, ...) but they should not load those components.

  So related but not the same:
  http://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studio-ideas/suggestions/2035455-use-nuget-to-install-most-of-the-components

• Kikoz commented  ·  April 27, 2012 2:12 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  ... or buy a machine with SSD and enjoy opening any document in VS in less than a second. Voting this one down.

• Philippe commented  ·  March 31, 2012 7:41 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  It would effectively be nice if the editor would open without loading all extensions when opening code files and not a project/solution. Or at least, it should display almost immediatly and load other stuff in the background (or by pressing a button to load all stuff).

• Mauricio Scheffer commented  ·  March 20, 2012 12:39 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Related: http://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/131389-visual-studio-performance/suggestions/2255626-make-it-feasible-to-use-visual-studio-as-a-program

• Joe commented  ·  March 8, 2012 12:14 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  I wouldn't mind even if all you could do is look at the code without plugins or IDE features like intellisense, having them load in the background.

  The first thing I tend to do after opening a file it open it, afterall. Edits come later.

• Anonymous commented  ·  March 4, 2012 7:45 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  If you're looking for an efficient notepad, Visual Studio is not exactly up for it. It's a full fledged IDE. There's so many stuff to load that, yes, it will be slow to startup. Just install Notepad++/Sublime Text 2/GEdit/vim/emacs/ed and open your text file with it.

• Abhijit Bhattacharya commented  ·  February 29, 2012 5:35 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  I agree with this. VS is a pretty good editor, but takes forever to open up; even more so with all the extensions loaded up.